Pascal Wehrlein converted pole position into victory in the opening race of Formula E’s season-ending London E-Prix, to steal the lead of the drivers’ title with a round remaining.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The German effectively led the entire race with a comfortable margin, as a result of Porsche teammate Nico M\u00fcller having held up the pack behind in the first half of the race.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It was Mitch Evans who was directly behind M\u00fcller, before opting to take Pit Boost at the end of Lap 16 in an attempt to undercut both Porsches.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, a full course yellow caused by Lucas di Grassi crashing marked the latest major title blow for Evans, as it gave Wehrlein and several others a chance to take their Pit Boost and lose less time.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Wehrlein’s lead extended considerable due to this, while Evans and M\u00fcller who pitted a lap after the Jaguar fell towards the foot of the top 10.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Championship leader going into the race Jake Dennis worked through from fifth to second, meaning Wehrlein has a five-point advantage over the Briton going into Sunday’s finale.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A messy final few laps saw Antonio Felix da Costa complete the podium, ahead of Sebastien Buemi and Taylor Barnard.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Evans had no option but to settle for eighth, putting him 21 points adrift of Wehrlein heading into the finale at the ExCeL Centre.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It means just Wehrlein, Dennis and Evans can still win the world championship.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pascal Wehrlein converted pole position into victory in the opening race of Formula E’s season-ending London E-Prix, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-856746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}